quote, the financial statements are perfect. the bank s got all their money. the banks are happy as can be. the money is irrelevant. it s a small number. i m an innocent man persecuted by someone running for office. this state is vicious. and it takes away all my rightings. this is no fraud. it s a fraud on me. i did nothing wrong, he said. perhaps unsurprisingly, judge engoron interrupted asking chris kise to control your client, before calling the whole thing off and breaking for lunch. it s the prosecution s turn to deliver its close. asking for a $370 million fine as well as a ban on the trump organization in new york. prosecutors say the court has not heard any new facts from donald trump s team because, quote, most of the facts are undisputed. joining us from outside the manhattan courthouse, yasmin vossoughian. it got a bit spicy today. what else are we hearing from the prosecution right now? reporter: spicy is putting it lightly to say the least. i got to say, when
if you look at the polling, donald trump has 50%, around there, hatch the republican party. if there is just one republican going against him, is there a chance that that one republican, if it s nikki haley or ron desantis, has the chance to solidify all of the rest of the volt, and does it bring in some of the anti-trumpers who aren t voting in the republican primary any longer. i wonder if things are as concrete as we see them currently. on january 11th, 2024. yeah, the kids table dynamic that s existed in this primary i think has benefitted donald trump. if there was one credible alternative, i think the conversation would be entirely different. the problem is ron desantis and nikki haley both think they should be that alternative. chris christie until recently thought they should be that alternative. we have a smaller field than we did when he first ran. i think that s helpful, it s obviously still too big, and if there was a conversation, this is the person who is the